Diversity Equity and Inclusion
At Blue Surge Marketing Agency, our team rallies around a single purpose: to help businesses and nonprofit organizations meet their objectives through strategic digital marketing. That purpose and our inclusion of “all” directly connect to our company’s inclusivity value. We leverage our aim to champion a more inclusive society that provides a fulfilling workplace and enhances engagement with our clients, communities, and vendors.
Our History
Blue Surge Marketing Agency has a longstanding commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are part of our core values, shape our culture, and drive our business. Since our inception, we’ve been on a journey to build and refine our DE&I strategy.
Our Leadership
Our Strategy
At Blue Surge Marketing Agency, we embrace diversity and strive to give everyone access to opportunities. Our DE&I strategy focuses on four areas:
- Creating an inclusive experience for our team, vendors, and clients
- Having an inclusive work environment.
- Ensuring we have a diverse workforce
- Fostering change that have a positive impact on our local community
Equal Employment Opportunity
Our Commitment
Access to Opportunity
Breaking Barriers
The path to employment is littered with obstacles for many job seekers, especially people of color. Lack of prior experience, a criminal record, or a lack of formal education prevents employers from considering some.
We’re proud of our low barriers to job opportunities and the pathways we’ve created to turn jobs into careers.
In 2021, we hired a record number of new team members globally, many of whom were negatively impacted and lost their jobs due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic that swept the planet.
Hourly Pay and Incentives
We continue to invest in pay for our team members globally.
- Our wage structure reflects varied market rates associated with each role.
- The combined hourly wage is even higher when accounting for various benefits, team member discounts, commute savings from working remotely, paid time off, and quarterly and annual bonuses.
- Over the past year, Blue Surge Marketing Agency has raised wages for many roles on our team, building on our new team-based structure of agency operations that creates new positions, higher pay, and more room for career growth.
Driving a Career
We’re proud that many team members begin their journeys in part-time roles while going to school or raising their children, and there are plenty of opportunities to move to full-time and beyond if and when they choose.
- We have a 100% distributed workforce, which allows talented people across the globe to get their feet wet by joining our team without having to work in a centralized location. This helps drive careers because geography can often be a barrier for underrepresented groups who don’t have the means or fortune to live in a central metropolitan area like New York City.
- Blue Surge Marketing Agency project managers can earn above the industry average.
Opportunities for Military Veterans and Students
We welcome people of all backgrounds and experience levels to join our family, and we’re committed to making the transition into employment as seamless as possible for our associates.
- We encourage transitioning military, National Guard/Reserves, veterans, and military spouses to find meaningful futures through our agency and offer employment, education, and entrepreneurship opportunities.
- Each year, we invite undergraduates and graduate students and new grads to participate in internship and development programs across the company. These positions may be paid through stipends or commissions and offer exciting opportunities to innovate, solve critical problems, and network with executives and industry leaders. Many of our interns are extended job offers after their internship.
Benefits: Support On and Off the Clock
Scheduling Stability
Last-minute schedule changes can disrupt anyone’s day-to-day life. Here are a few ways we ensure scheduling stability at Blue Surge Marketing Agency:
- We offer full-time team members a consistent schedule – a whole work week with set days on and off, so they can plan for life outside of work.
- Team members have access to a shift scheduling app to track hours and request time off as needed.
- Paid time off plans empowers team members to decide how they use their leave by streamlining paid vacation, sick time, personal time, and holiday time into one category.
Financial Security
As a growing digital marketing agency, team members have several financial benefits to get the most out of their pay.
- Competitive pay that is in line with the current market.
- Team members can get early access to wages ahead of scheduled paychecks. This is money they’ve already earned, and it allows them to adjust to sudden emergencies and manage the unexpected.
- Allowances are given for equipment and subscriptions necessary to complete project deliverables, such as camera lenses and kits.
- Team members can receive exclusive discounts on software for their projects outside of our firm.
Prioritizing Health & Wellness
Health benefits aren’t just about reimbursement plans, deductibles, company-paid life insurance, and maternity/parental support. It’s about providing comprehensive stability for our team members and their families as well. Team members should feel secure knowing that their personal health and their dependents’ health can be taken care of, should tragedy strike. We are constantly exploring and considering ways to add to our health benefits program, including:
- Providing all team members with affordable options that include no lifetime maximum and qualified preventive care covered at 100%.
- Doctor on Demand, the world class telehealth service, that allows team members to meet with physicians and mental health professionals from the comfort of home.
- Giving team members a free, confidential counseling and health information service through Resources for Living.
- Company-paid life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, critical illness insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance and business travel accident insurance.
